At least one person was killed and more than two million customers were without power after Tropical Storm Isaias swept into New York, New Jersey and Connecticut on Tuesday, battering the Northeast with heavy rain, tornadoes and nearly hurricane-force winds. The strong winds snapped branches and felled trees across the region, causing at least one death. A 60-year-old man who was sitting on the passenger side of a car on 84th Drive in Queens was killed when a tree fell on the vehicle around 12:40 p.m., the police said. About an hour and a half later, a 49-year-old woman was critically injured when she was struck by a falling tree branch on Dumont Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, the police said.

Source: International New York Times August 04, 2020 18:58 UTC